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...first step in showing this leadership is for the task force to recommend a date by which Harvard must reduce its net emissions to zero, and in so doing to achieve climate neutrality. Karen A. McKinnon is an earth and planetary sciences concentrator in Currier House. Elizabeth R. Shope is an environmental science and public policy concentrator in Leverett House. They are members of the Harvard College Environmental Action Committee...
...there. Yale has operated a one-acre sustainable farm since May 2003, which attracts approximately 200 student volunteers, according to Laura Hess, who petitioned to start the project before she graduated in 2006. Yale sells its produce at local farmers’ markets and to local restaurants. Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the co-chair of the Sustainable Allston subcommittee who is spearheading the project, declined to comment yesterday, saying that she did not want to jeopardize the farm with premature publicity. But in a promotional video posted in December on an environmental blog, Shope said that...
Toilet paper might not be the first thing one associates with environmental activism, but for Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the two are inextricably linked. Last summer, Shope discovered that Kimberly-Clark, the company that supplied the majority of Harvard’s toilet paper, was not being environmentally friendly. “I found out that Kimberly-Clark source some of their materials from the boreal forest [in Canada],” Shope said. Shope approached Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) with a proposal to switch all the toilet paper on campus to 100 percent recycled products...
Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, Sustainable Allston’s other co-chair, said she sees Allston as a unique opportunity...
...saving the environment need not wait for Allston: there’s always just “turning off your lights, turning off your computers,” Shope says. “All that good stuff...